How about doing it the other way round? Start with the non-JS page that
redirects you to the JS-heavy version (using window.location not META redirect).
O.
On 1 Jun 2010, at 23:56, Jay wrote:
> I always try to write websites using progressive enhancement -- but a
> recent project I'm working on requires quite a bit of AJAX DOM
> injection and element processing in Javascript. I've made quite a few
> changes to MooTools so that a browser as old as IE5.5 can run the
> site, but I haven't figured out a good way to deal with visitors who
> have javascript disabled, and I'm also really concerned with visitors
> who use a screen reader -- even if they use it in a browser with
> javascript enabled.
>
> I need a way of getting non-javascript visitors to a different page. I
> tried inserting a <meta> redirect tag in the head, and disabling it in
> javascript with window.stop() and document.execCommand('Stop') (for
> IE). That works great in all versions of Firefox, Webkit and IE, but
> it doesn't seem to be stopping Opera from redirecting. I've also tried
> removing the tag, but I think once the timer starts, it can't be
> stopped.
>
> Is this a dumb way of redirecting?
